Fastener.



No. 725,699. PATENTED APR 21, 1903. G. H. GOODWIN.

FASTENER'.

APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 2a, 1902.

no MODEL.

section.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES H. GOODWIN, OF WATERBURY, CONNE TICUT, ASSICNOR BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO UNITED STATES FASTENER COMPANY, OF PORTLAND, MAINE, AND BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MAINE.

FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 725,699, datedApril 21, 1903.

Application filed June 28, 1902- To all whom it may concern.-

- Be it known that I, CHARLES H. GOODWIN, a citizen of the 'UnitedStates, residing at Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Oonnecticut,.have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fasteners, of which the following is a full specification.

My invention relates to that class of separable fasteners used on gloves, clothing, and other articles and having a stud or male member and a socket or female member; and it consists in certain'new and useful features of construction, hereinafter set forth.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows in elevation the two parts of the socket member of niy improved fastener as they are commercially sold. Fig. 2 shows the same in section. Fig.3 shows in section the completed socket member attached to the material of a glove or other article. Fig. 4 shows in elevation the two parts of the stud member of my improved fastener as they are commercially sold. Fig. 5 shows the same in Fig. 6 shows in section my completed stud member attached to any material.

As shown in the drawings, the socket member consists of the cap A and socket-chamber B. The cap A, I preferably make of three piecesthe shell 1, the filler 2, and the gripping-collet 3assembled as shown in Fig. 2. The gripping-collet 8 has the form of an inverted truncated cone, with its base resting within the shell 1 and attached thereto by the inwardly-turned edge of the shell. The filler 2 is inclosed within the base of the cone 3, as shown, and preferably has the central aperture 4. This filler may be made of paper, india-rubber, or other suitable material, and the purpose of such filler is to give strength and support to the shell 1.

My socket-chamber B has the sphericalshaped gripping-chamber 5, with the flange 6 at one end, both ends being open and of smaller diameter than the central portion. The dimensions of the socket-chamber B and the gripping-collet 3 are so proportioned that the conical end of the gripping-collet 3 will just slip over the largest diameter of the Serial No. 113,571. (No model.)

spherical socket-chamber 5, and when the two pieces are suitably pressed together, with the material between them, the conical gripping-collet 3 is crimped or contracted about the smaller diameter of the socket-chamber next to the flange, and thus the two parts are firmly riveted together, forming the socket member of my fastener. By making the upper end of the socket-chamber contracted its entrance into the gripping-collet 3 is facili tated, thus allowing the fasteners to be set more rapidly and accurately.

The stud member of my'fastener consists of the stud O and shouldered attaching-eyelet D. The stud I preferably make as shown, having the struck-up spring-stud 8 and the gripping-collet 9. This last-named piece has the form of an inverted truncated cone, in-

closing in its base 11 the base 10 of the stud 8 and having the conical gripping portion 9 extending downwardly, as shown. The attaching-eyelet D has the flange 15, the shank 14, the shoulder 13, and the contracted portion 12, which is just sufficient in size to enter the contracted end of the gripping-collet 9.

When the two parts are suitably pressed together with any material between them, the gripping-collet 9 slips over the contracted portion 12 of the attaching-eyelet until it strikes the shoulder 13, after which the continued pressure contracts the opening of the conical collet 9 by pressing it inward and upward and forcing a groove 13 in the attaching-eyelet D, so that it grips the attachingeyelet D, as shown-in Fig. 6. Were it not for the shoulder 13 if the attempt were made to set my stud member on material of any thicktral opening to admit the attaching-eyelet, in

combination with an attaching-eyelet having a shoulder against which the edge of the central opening bears to compress the attachingeyelet and hold the stud member to the material.

2. A stud member consisting of a struckup resilient stud, aconical qripping-collet secured to the stud and having a central opening for an attaching-eyelet, in combination with an attaching-eyelet having a reduced upper portion, an enlarged lower portion, an intermediate shoulderand a base-flange, said stud member being secured to the material by forcing the attaching-eyelet into the central opening, in the gripping-millet, substantially as described.

3. In a fastener, a socket member com pris- CHAS. H. GOODW IN.

Witnesses:

ELROY HEADLEY, JAMES H. VREELAND. 

